The Future This Week: September 26, 2017

“By far the greatest danger of Artificial Intelligence is that people conclude too early that they understand it.” –Eliezer Yudkowsky

Just two weeks after the first Emotion AI Summit–an event that might not have been possible even a year ago–there is an explosion of news around artificial intelligence. The sum of the stories might best be described by the subtitle of my other blog: ridiculous and sublime. As sure as there is the potential to use new technology for both good and evil, there is also the likelihood that someone will use it, well, to be just plain silly. So here is the good, the bad, and the positively daft. And be sure to check out the Seeking Delphi™ Podcast on the Emotion AI Summit, if you missed it last week.

-Vladimir Putin has more to say about artificial intelligence. A few weeks back he said that whomever controls artificial intelligence will control the world. Now he’s warning–get this–artificially intelligent robots might eat us. Sorry for the spoiler alert, but in Will Mitchell’s sci-fi novel, Creations, they sort of do.

—A new report by the World Economic Forum projects the global market for artificial intelligence will grow at a compound rate of over %17, to annual value of US$14 Billion by 2023. It also spews the now commonplace doom and gloom about job displacement.